The Epicurean paradox

[packman]

[The Magistrate]

1. Cold But Fair, Sir

"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[WhiteTara]

2. My favorite question is: If God is everything

then how can God be outside, looking down or in or out?

[mitch96]

3. "If God is everything"

As my old instructor would say when he did not have the answer...
It's beyond the scope of this discussion..........
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[Rustynaerduwell]

4. A world with paradoxes does not disprove the existence of a God who created it.

An all-powerful God that does not use its power to subvert free will does not disprove its existence. Neither does an all-knowing God that does not change the outcome of the evil actions of man. There is no evil in natural events. Hurricanes that kill have no motive and no free will. Men do. It's entirely possible man was given free will, a consciousness that transcends nature, so that he may learn and grow spiritually. Can God create a perfect world? Of course. He may be in the process, and we may all be all part of it.

[empedocles]

5. 'One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical . . . for the paradoxical is the source

of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without paradox is like a lover without feeling; a paltry mediocrity'. - Kierkegaard

[ck4829]

6. Evil Exists - Does it though?

In Epicuro's day and age, they left babies they didn't like outside the city gate to starve or get eaten by animals. If the baby was taken by someone else, then it became someone else's problem, no skin off their nose.

We'd call that evil today... in Epicuro's time, that was reasonable behavior. Along with selling disobedient/disrespectful children into slavery.

[BSdetect]

7. A seven year old could figure this out.